Meeting of the Waters

The proximity of Manaus to the forest and the river offers the tourists who visit the city, many opportunities for contact with the jungle and the attractions it offers. In addition to knowledge about the Amazon, the visitor has the opportunity to learn about local culture and observe the rich biodiversity of the region.

The tours along the rivers are made in comfortable riverboats with the opportunity to walk through the streams, visit the houses of riparian to buy handicrafts and observations of the fauna and flora.

The Meeting of Waters (Portuguese: Encontro das Águas) is the confluence of the Rio Negro, a river with dark (almost black) coloured water and the sandy-coloured Amazon River or Rio Solimões, as it is known in the upper section of the Amazon in Brazil.

For 6 km the river's waters run side by side without mixing. This phenomenon is due to the differences in temperature, speed and water density of the two rivers. The Rio Negro flows at about 2 km per hour, at a temperature of 22°C, while the Rio Solimões flows between 4 and 6 km per hour, at a temperature of 28°C. After the "Meeting of the Waters", the boat leads for greener parks. The most common, due to proximity, is the Janauary Ecological Park, where tour guides explain the local flora and fauna with the sighting of right-royal victories and rubber.

It is one of the main tourist attractions of Manaus, Brazil.

Departure is from floating Harbour of Manaus at 9:00 a.m., embarking on a regional boat with capacity for 90 passengers. The boat will pass in front of Manaus and the tour guide will explain about the houses on stilts and the fish market area; you will see many local boats used by the people as the only main transportation in the Amazon region. You will also see the industrial area where motorcycles and electronics are produced and then exported through the river to other countries.

Around 11:00am, the tour will arrive in the Meeting of the Waters; the tour guide will give a brief explanation about this fantastic phenomenon, where the black waters of the Negro never mix with muddy waters of the Amazon River.

After the explanation you will visit a natural park called Janauary, where native people live in completely harmony with nature. The boat will then arrive and stop in a floating house where the restaurant is located and the tour will also visit a lake full of giant lilies and aquatic plants that only grow in this part of the Amazon, because of muddy waters.

This package includes the tour through the flooded jungle area; this part will be conducted in small wooden motorized canoes with a capacity of ten people each. The tour will visit the flooded jungle area in these boats to see and listen to this unique jungle ecosystem. After an hour, the tour will return to the floating restaurant and lunch will be served with traditional dishes, guests will have the opportunity to look in the souvenir stores nearby, where you can purchase many crafts made by native people.

Embarkation will take place in the larger boat back to Manaus around 2:30 pm, the trip from the lake to Manaus takes about 40 minutes and the tour will arrive in Manaus at 3:30 pm. If you are staying in hotels far from the downtown, there will be vans waiting to take tourists for their hotels. End of the tour.